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- LOREN FINCH, who was a resident of Rock county, Wisconsin,
- for nearly half a century and for many years was counted
among her prosperous farmers and representative citizens, was
a native of New York state. He was born on June 29, 1821, and
was a son of Alva and Phoebe FINCH. His father was a farmer in
New York and died there when his son was quite young.
- Our subject passed his early life in his native state, where
he received
- a good English education in the common schools. Soon after
attaining his majority in 1844 he came West and settled in La
Prairie township, Rock county, where he devoted himself to farming
and made his home. Mr. FINCH was a man of industrious habits,
a good manager, and withal honorable and straightforward in all
his business affairs, and maintained the confidence and good
will of all who came within the range of his influence.
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- He had a kind and loving disposition and was a model husband
and neighbor, unselfish in his actions and always ready to help
those in need or distress. He was a Republican in political sentiment
and filled numerous local offices, serving as justice of the
peace, treasurer of the township and town supervisor. In religious
faith he was affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal church.
- Mr. FINCH carried on general farming and stock raising with
good success and added to his
- original holdings from time to time, owning at the time of
his decease a model farm of 260 acres, well improved and under
a high state of cultivation. In 1892 he retired from the farm
and moved to Janesville, where he died in 1893 honored and beloved
by a wide circle of friends. In 1856, at the age of thirty-five,
Mr. FINCH married Miss Nancy, a daughter of Joseph and Hannah
WILCOX, who was a native of Allegany county, New York. Her family
settled in Milton township, Rock county, in 1845, but later removed
to La Prairie township, where they died. Her father was a Baptist
minister and a man greatly beloved and highly esteemed for his
manly character.
- Mr. and Mrs. FINCH had no children. Mrs. FINCH still lives
in Janesville and has a
- comfortable home at 59 Milton avenue. She is an honored and
devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
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- Taken from "Rock County, Wis." by William Fiske
Brown, (c)1908, pp. 869-870; lithograph p. 552.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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